On Photography (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Sontag
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays, History, Arts
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Art or artists, Emotions, Photography or photographers, Popular culture, Mass media, Advertising, Vision
Form and Content
On Photography began with a single essay in which Susan Sontag wanted to explore some of the problems, both aesthetic and moral, presented by the omnipresence of photographed images in her culture. As the essay became more complex and historically expansive, it suggested others, and over five years Sontag eventually wrote a series of essays in which she traced the traditions and meaning of photography. As she later was to write, the argument sketched in the first essay evolved full circle through digressions and documentation into the more theoretical...
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